Weegy: For some professions where the stakes are high for you as a consumer (such as medicine, civil engineering, legal representation), pure free market would mean that they'd run out of customers after enough botches and lawsuits, [ [ and you don't want to be one of them. Also, as a starting professional, no one would trust you until you built a visible track record.
In an ideal democracy, the government only implements what its constituency requires of them; in a more real one, it's what they find acceptable/reasonable. Protectionism? Yes, but this one may be needed for highly practical reasons.
There's an argument from Milton Friedman that would apply for other non-critical professions, where an optional certification from some independent body would vouch for competence.
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